Word: claustrophobia
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...Though Ellis curiously omits any discussion of religion, she captures the claustrophobia of being female and young in Afghanistan. Ellis is close to finishing a sequel that will follow Parvana through the present-day bombing. But don't expect a rosy picture of the war. Near the end of The Breadwinner, a friend suggests to Parvana: "Maybe someone should drop a big bomb on the country and start again...
...nearly any educated woman you speak to loathes the burka. So do many less educated ones--if you can question them where men cannot hear. The heavy cloth covering can induce panic, claustrophobia and headaches. It's a psychological hobbling of women that is akin to Chinese foot binding. It's also life threatening. Try negotiating a busy Kabul street--around donkey carts, careening buses and the Taliban roaring by in Datsun pickups--when your hearing is muffled and your vision is reduced to a narrow mesh grid...
...takes Hou two hours to show us the workings of this relationship, which extends little beyond breezy copulative invective. There are the makings of a fine film within this relationship, but the feckless script won't let it develop. We feel Vicky's intense claustrophobia, but no matter how many cigarettes Shu Qi lights (35 by this reviewer's count), the smoke rises and vanishes into thin nothing. The palpitant star gets more screen time here than in her past 20 films combined and you can't help but look at her, but she is given too little substance from...
...most popular single-country pavilions remained the German pavilion, a house reconstructed by Gregor Schneider that caused either great claustrophobia or great praise, and the Canadian pavilion (George Bures Miller and Janet Cardiff), which took science fiction film making to the next level by using all five senses to play with the viewer’s sense of perception. The Polish pavilion (Leon Tarasewicz) won the cheap thrill award, by creating an easy optical illusion with their floor. (Ridges cut into the floor and painted orange on one side and blue on the other caused the floor to miraculously change...
...viola and slide guitars give the whole affair a Western tinge, like the Cowboy Junkies on a bad trip. Yet despite the unremitting, minor-key downbeatness of it all, the album never reaches the depths of claustrophobia and despair that gives Cave his unique edge, and makes him so hard to stomach for most; instead it occasionally wanders into Radiohead territory. Her voice truly is an experience in itself—a gloriously wrecked set of pipes from the desolation of the moon, that at times has the gravely timbre of a suicidal Peter Gabriel. The lyrics...